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Development of a PMMA phantom as a practical alternative for quality control of gamma knife® dosimetry

BACKGROUND: To measure the absorbed dose rate to water and penumbra of a Gamma Knife® (GK) using a polymethyl metacrylate (PMMA) phantom. METHODS: A multi-purpose PMMA phantom was developed to measure the absorbed dose rate to water and the dose distribution of a GK. The phantom consists of a hemisp...

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Autores principales: Chung, Jae Pil, Seong, Young Min, Kim, Tae Yeon, Choi, Yona, Kim, Tae Hoon, Choi, Hyun Joon, Min, Chul Hee, Benmakhlouf, Hamza, Chun, Kook Jin, Chung, Hyun-Tai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30217160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-018-1117-8